James W. Hubbard

Mental health advocates and labor union officials are calling for increased staffing and policy changes at the state's maximum security mental hospital — including a reassessment of how patients are paired as roommates — after one patient killed another at the Jessup facility last week.

State health officials are still investigating the second killing of a patient at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in just over a year.

Maryland Health Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein said in an interview Monday that the investigation will allow the state to determine if further precautions need to be taken at the facility. Vitaly Davydov, who killed his psychiatrist five years...

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Mental health advocates and labor union officials are calling for increased staffing and policy changes at the state's maximum security mental hospital — including a reassessment of how patients are paired as roommates — after one patient killed another...